Providence Health & Services Jobs

Digital Innovation at Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) is a small but mighty product development and incubation team that is building next-gen tools that give patients convenient and easy access to healthcare virtually anywhere, anytime. Our goal as a disruptive engineering organization within PSJH is to provide a 10x better customer experience with technology and processes to patients and providers alike. We’re looking for candidates at mid to senior level in helping us out

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer-Developer Experience to be part of a small but growing team of entrepreneurial developers who are passionate about positively influencing the lives of the engineering teams around you. You will do this by implementing well designed and informed software aimed around Developer Workflows, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering and Operational Excellence. The team aims to be a juggernaut at cranking out disruptive features that we ultimately aim to open source to the community where applicable. You’re surrounded by SDEs, Systems Engineers and Network Engineers. You contribute your unique knowledge to your peers and your organization alike. In exchange, you learn copious amounts of engineering concepts outside of the core application layer.

In this position you will have the following responsibilities:

The ideal candidate here is one that is a polyglot developer who has a knack for understanding how things work under the hood or have the curiosity to learn things in a very small amount of time. You are a force multiplier: a developer who makes everyone around her/him better. You put the experience of your audience or the customer first. You have a penchant for learning or know intimately well some of these concepts:

Programming Language Runtimes and how different languages vary in their demands on compilation, execution and system resources like cpu, memory, I/O etc. e.g. Garbage collection algorithms

Not satisfied with status quo when it comes to Engineering problems and practices. You ask questions within reason and objectively to improve the quality of work and experience in amongst your team and your customers

Understand or are curious about how toolchains you use every day work – e.g. Git, what is a 3-way merge?

Understand the best practices around Operational Excellence e.g. SLO vs SLA, percentile latencies and how to write code to compute that e.g. How many hours in a year is 99.99% uptime

Understand or are curious about Linux (or UNIX like) Operating Systems Principles or the networking stack e.g. Understanding command line tools to debug high disk I/O or Load Balancing algorithms employed for High Availability

Well read in modern cloud deployment and development best practices or display a penchant for learning the same e.g. containers and Kubernetes

Has some idea about client-server protocols, distributed systems paradigms and the open source landscape supporting them e.g. leader election principles, what is Zookeeper or etcd

Has an understanding or the penchant for learning the data layer that supports programming paradigms e.g. ACID databases vs NoSQL document oriented databases

Usually a bits and pieces player. You’re debugging a latency issue in the morning, and reading about how to transfer files between two servers effectively in the evening

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications for this position include:

B.S. or higher in Computer Science (and Engineering) OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

5 years of experience in a few languages including (but not limited to) Python, Golang, command line scripting like bash and awk, Java and Node.JS

Knows deeply the developer workflow on how code is built, stored, deployed and run. And on what kind of hardware and why? i.e. CI/CD processes, deployment strategies, availability best practices etc.

Preferred Qualifications for this position include:

M.S. or higher in Computer Science (and Engineering) OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

8 years of experience in a few languages including (but not limited to) Python, Golang, command line scripting like bash and awk, Java and Node.JS

Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Understands security best practices around writing robust code and is well read on practices on how to secure the runtime of an application

We offer:

A small but growing team

we’re good at what we do and enjoy working together. Autonomy and respect from day one

An environment that is scrappy, flexible, and values tenacity

Great competitive pay

Generous vacation, benefits, flexible work, and matched 403b

The best tools and equipment money can buy

What Else:

The exhilaration of an incubation organization

Paired with the resources and security of an industry healthcare leader

Our Mission:

As employees of Digital Innovation, we passionately serve the people of our community. We are dedicated to removing obstacles that limit access to quality health care and enabling people to live healthier lives. We are a small but rapidly evolving and growing organization that aims and bringing healthcare and it’s delivery tools using modern technology and software best practices. We aim to adopt open source and help the community in doing so. You’ll be surrounded by a team of people who have transformed industries and have come to PSJH to transform health care delivery.

We offer a full comprehensive range of benefits - see our website for details

http://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/rewards-benefits/

Our Mission

As people of Providence, we reveal God's love for all, especially the poor and vulnerable, through our compassionate service.

About Us

Providence Health & Services is the third largest not-for-profit health system in the United States. Providence employs more than 82,000 caregivers (employees) across a five-state area; AK, WA, MT, OR, and CA. Our facilities include 34 hospitals, 600 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing and other health and educational services. Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.